Porsche Boxster and Cayman 1996-2007

This all new and much enlarged third edition of our best-selling Ultimate Buyers’ Guide helps you identify and buy the Porsche Boxster and Cayman in all their forms. Using data supplied by Porsche and independent experts, the comprehensive guide includes much previously unpublished specification material, facts and figures and year-by-year changes. There is detailed information on colours, options, chassis numbering and the limited edition models. The Buying section is packed with clear and detailed photographs of what to look for and what goes wrong.

This new third edition, published September 2007, comes with increased data, substantially increased page count and 251 colour photographs.
Full colour, with gloss-finished covers.

Professional journalist and acknowledged Porsche expert Peter Morgan has 20 Porsche titles to his credit and writes for Porsche magazines worldwide. With a degree in mechanical engineering and drawing on 30 years experience working on the Stuttgart cars, he also runs an independent pre-purchase inspection consultancy for Porsche cars.

Contents:

• Overview on the model
• Timeline for Boxster and Cayman
• Facts, figures and performance
• The Type 986 Boxsters (1996-2004)
• The Type 987 Boxsters (2005-date)
• Boxster know-how and changes year by year including:
  • Bodyshell
  • Equipment and accessories
  • Interior
  • Engine
  • Transmission
  • Suspension and steering
  • Brakes
  • wheels and tyres
• Special model
• The Cayman and Cayman S
• Cayman facts, figures and performance
• Boxster and Cayman Production information (1996-2007):
  • Vehicle identification Numbers
  • Year by year body colours and interior choices
  • Key 986 Boxster option codes
  • Key 987 Boxster and Cayman option codes
• Buying a used Boxster
  • Documentation
  • Bodyshell
  • Equipment
  • trim and accessories
  • Interior
  • Engine
  • Transmission
  • Suspension and steering
  • Brakes
  • wheels and tyres
• Additional notes on buying a 987 Boxster or Cayman
• What to look for - at a glance